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Pablo Heras-Casado; Calixto Bieito; Opéra national de Paris; Rebecca Ringst; Ingo Krügler; Michael Bauer; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Wagner: Siegfried
Pablo Heras-Casado; Calixto Bieito; Opéra national de Paris; Rebecca Ringst; Ingo Krügler; Michael Bauer; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
BudapestR. Strauss: SalomeNew production
Strauss R.: Salome
Martin Rajna; Máté Szabó; Hungarian State Opera; Márton Ágh; Ildikó Tihanyi; Csaba Szilárdi; Nicole Chevalier
WarsawSalomeNew production
Strauss R.: Salome
Yoel Gamzou; Claus Guth; Polish National Opera; Étienne Pluss; Ursula Kudrna; Olaf Freese; Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki
BerlinKirill Petrenko conducts “Hänsel und Gretel”Semi-staged performance
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
Berliner Philharmoniker; Kirill Petrenko; Matthias Davids; Andrew D. Edwards; Samantha Hankey; Elena Villalón
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ParisL'Or du Rhin
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Pablo Heras-Casado; Calixto Bieito; Opéra national de Paris; Rebecca Ringst; Ingo Krügler; Michael Bauer; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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A rollicking good story woven into music by a composer without peers, the ultimate operatic expression of the High Romantic aesthetic, and an opera that actually feels short at five hours.